16-year-old Boy Killed In Jcc Drive-by

JAMES CITY — A 16-year-old boy was killed Saturday night in a drive-by shooting, said James City County Police Investigator Alan Moore.

Gentry Kaine, of the 200 block of Lorac Road in the Williamsburg area, was hanging out with friends in a small park on Mooretown Road when shots were fired from a passing Ford Explorer, Moore said.

Police are asking anyone with information about the shooting or about an earlier altercation to come forward.

Kaine was shot around midnight in a park known as "the ballfield" in the 6100 block of Mooretown. He and his friends had been at a high school football game that night.

Five or six shots were fired, Moore said.

Kaine was in the park with eight to 10 friends. Everyone scattered during the attack, but Kaine fell, mortally wounded in the abdomen by a semi-automatic weapon, Moore said.

Police found .380-caliber shell casings at the scene.

Moore said the suspects were described as a tall, slender, young Asian male, approximately 6-foot-3-inches tall, possibly wearing a pony tail; a heavyset white male with facial hair; a white male about 6 feet tall, wearing a do-rag on his head; and possibly another white male. They were in a green 1990s model 4-door Ford Explorer.

Anyone with information about the suspects or about an incident that occurred shortly before the shooting is asked to call Crime Line at 253-8677.

In the earlier incident, Moore said, there was a verbal altercation between Kaine and some males in a green Ford Explorer at Williamsburg Shopping Center, near the Food Lion.

Two girls in the parking lot are thought to have witnessed that incident, Moore said. He asked them to contact police.

Kaine had earned a General Educational Development certificate and was employed in West Point, Moore said.

In another matter, a spokesman for the Williamsburg Police Department said Saturday and Sunday he was unable to provide information about a reported brawl that occurred in the city Friday night after a football game.

Moore, of James City County Police, said he was unaware of that incident, so he could not say if the two situations were related.

Judith Haynes can be reached at (757) 247-4627 or jhaynes@dailypress.com